When he doubled the budget of the campaign they spent a lot of money on the tumor viruses better brother and sisters of the aids virus so all of that research and Drug Development throughout the 70s laid the foundation for relatively small investment only a few billion per year from the nih now all an extraordinarily small number of people die from aids every year we still put 3 billion but alzheimers is 500 million we need to realign back that. I appreciate you ending the conference within the last words of wisdom . The queue for inviting me. Also a plug for my book that is outside i hope you will buy some of these from amazon because i am trying to sell as many books as her. [laughter] i have a long way to go. Thank you. [applause] but but it will but have but the at good evening and welcome to the tragedy for an even when dash conversation with Michael Lindsay from the view from the top. We are thrilled by the turnout if you are Still Standing there are a few seats right over here one or two right there as well. Feel free to make your way to a spot. I and the president of the trinity for rum and we are excited to partner to host the presentation before the staff to partner with us and we are delighted we are joined by our guests as well as forum board members. An Advisory Board members and trudy Forum Academy trusties. I am delighted and sold many alumni and gordon alumni are here today. That each and every one of you. We think youll find this discussion and compelling in to answer all the audience questions we will be life plotting the event on the Facebook Page or arent twitter Trinity Forum or view from the top. Tonights presentation will also run throat though began dawn and sees bin into a booktv. If youre not familiar with treated before we provide us space and resources for leaders to engage we believe ideas have consequences and as part of the christian mandate of loving god with all your mind requires thoughtful contemplation of the great ideas and questions of our time. It is our mission and our joint to provide publications and programs such as though one tonight to help leaders engage in those questions and ultimately come to better know the author of the audience ears. It is said the Great Questions of life is boiled down to just three. What is a good person was a good life and what is a just society . Our conceptions of and hopes of are necessarily influenced in part by the individuals that shape our lives. With so grappling with those questions ushers and another line of inquiry. What is the nature of leadership . Is it possible to live lead wisely and well . It is a question of enormous importance in in our time when public trust of leaders and business and government virtually every institution has plummeted to new lows in leadership failure. And a supply of trustworthy leaders seems more you lose some of the need to understand how to cultivate and develop such leadership is more urgent. And you can address that need with the expertise or the inside as our speaker this evening. Dr. Michael lindsay a promise sociologists and author and president of courted college outside of boston massachusetts. A graduate of baylor and from princeton from a ph. D. In sociology from princeton devoted much of his academic career to the study of leadership. As a professor at Rice University he directed the study of leadership boswell as published of Pulitzer Prize nominated books face in the halls of power listed as the best book of 2007 by Publishers Weekly and by the profiled usa today and cnn and countless other outlets. Since assuming the presidency the leadership expertise is increasingly practical who. The relatively short tenure has been accompanied not only by a dramatic increase of applications in the enrollments and applications but and inspiring a new generation of leaders. That is modeled after the White House Fellows Program that he calls of a weeklong Leadership Class also whom the results of which schaede details in his book view from the top the we invite him to discuss today. Were joined by his coauthor we produce say is the legacy of the trinity Forum Academy and together they will take on the questions. Welcome. [applause] thank you very much i wish my folks were here. My dad would be so proud. My mom would not believe that. [laughter] tried to understand what makes great leaders how do they manage the challenges and opportunities day encounter with positions of responsibility to create a legacy that extends far beyond their term in office. People ask how in the role did you interview 550 amazing individuals . It was a wonderful project so i am living proof you can write a dissertation that your wife will describe a sexually interested. [laughter] but this as a matter to be in the right place at the right time conducting interviews the couple of hours to kill and stanford up was in the store then i looked over and saw a woman who i had been trying to track down for years. Who looked exactly like karen hughes. She served as counselor to the president for george did you bush for i have been trying to get interview with her for about four years and here she was, or so i thought in the flash. [laughter] i was not positive so i thought i decided to wait until she would spoke in a couple of moments she said something and i instantly recognized her voice. This is my big break. Then realize i have never asked somebody for an interview face to face of is like asking somebody on a day to. What if they say no . It is embarrassing so i had to get up my nerve. I will circle round her. I did. At the end of the first circle i thought i am not ready. I will circle the second time i actually circled carrot karen hughes five times. The the end of the fifth time i thought it is tudor fracking and i left the store. [laughter] there is of large plaza outside i stood up there and i thought what was that about . Why was i so intimidated where she would think of me . What if she says know she will forget it five minutes but i will remember it the rest of my life. [laughter] ikn cannot find her. I thought this is divine punishment. Eventually she is up at the coffee bar so i walked up i think how do i address her . Madam counselor or counselors use . Blood and i suppose to say . Was sorting that out as a creature so i just tapped her on this shoulder. I have a habit when i get nervous to have read blotches appear on my neck i knew i had about 50 seconds before my face would be we to read. This is huge ivan sociologists conducting a study on leaders would you be willing to give me an interview . She said actually about here looking and colleges with my son but i will gives you my phone number and call me and i will be happy to sit down with you. Kd a couple months passed and they gave her a call. She said the young man who turned bright red at stanford . [laughter] yes man that is me she gave me an interview we didnt ride across the street and it was amazing. Here is a woman who was a surprise that she was in the inner circle of political power she did not spend her life to get there she was friends with the man who ran for president and he invited her. Once she was in the office she began to wonder this is how want to lead my life . A teenage son that she never saw a and if you know, her story she ended up presiding her position at the white house to move back to austin in during that time i conducted the interview she was grappling with the questions of vocation and calling sanders wants ability and decided to go back to washington and worked in the state department for a couple of years but of those 550 people i was blessed with extraordinary individuals each have their own stories with the interesting things to offer how does leadership worked in our culture today . I wrote view from the top with the hope it would inspire the next generation of thinkers that in position of responsibility resonates the people i have interviewed pick up copies and send emails theyre not all hate mail so that is a good sign. So i tried to represent peoples experience the as truthfully as i could and at the same time apply the critical analysis to tell stories with other big numbers of folks represented an individual experiences. A things about would be helpful but i walk away after 10 years thinking is important. Number one is the significance of institutional leadership. And his parents were immigrants and he went to college studying engineering and discover the technology that would allow for the liquid Crystal Display. But the problem is he discovered this in 1964 when the of leadership did not say that was interesting. In the u. S. Has the of loss the competitive in advantage to japanese brought a liquid Crystal Display to the marketplace in the 70s did 80s. Without is his usual backing he could not make a longterm difference he gets the credit for the attention of those civil dont even know his name. Institutions mattered far more than i expected. But what i found is most of the power and over culture is housed you have a chance to make of longterm impact. Of the first female we are admiral of the u. S. Navy. When on to serve as the head of the American Red Cross commissioner of of ladies golf association. But marty was the person to help u. S. Navy figure out how to create more space for women to serve in combat or leadership positions . Because she was an insider to bring about a significant change to the u. S. Military. One of those key lessons is if you want to have a Lasting Impact you have to be in the room. In the second key element we encountered over the course of the study is early leadership. We found a really doesnt matter much about what you do before the age of 20. There is no statistically a significant relationship between any variable and the likelihood of becoming a strategic leader later in life. Doesnt matter if youre parents were rich or poor or if you were a varsity athlete or student body president or popular or a nerd none of those things matter. In some time into the early adult stage around 18 through 22 in the College Years in particular, you need to find a mentor. Somebody who will help raise the opportunities for you to introduce you to Different Networks there is one book wrote written called getting a job the key finding of research is it doesnt really matter if your friends and family but instead the strength of weak ties. We get jobs because of acquaintance that works and friends of friends to help make introductions. That is what i found that many of those folks who got a leg up achieved that because they were a friend of a friend with an introduction. One of the key findings is young people have to maximize the opportunities. Not everybody has the same repertoire of skills but use we were given. A wonderful story. Kevin from university of maryland was not the best student or the best athlete in number of friends were drafted to the nfl and he did not think it would be a possibility but kevin was always good at sales where guys could buy roses for their girlfriends and granite at the dorm room and made a lot of money. After the today practices in late august he realized if he took off his shoulder pads teacher was a weighted down with sweat and he thought there has to be a way to invent a fabric to with a wave of moisture so you dont have this extra five or 10 pounds to carry it when you perform a sport he literally invented performance apparel. He took his last 600 and invested in six different fibers is this is the key and ended up working. And that was the start of the under armour. You never know how you take opportunities to maximize them and leverage them to have a Lasting Impact. Kim have to experience the leadership catalyst. When i was a member add rice we tried to figure out how could day enter into the top 10 institutions nationally. The head ben at 164 number of years. When of the areas was a rigorous Leadership Development program to help elevate the contributions of food they were serving. So i was tasked to look get all the Leadership Programs programs, Public Sector and i looked at 25 that had a lot of promise. End up flying by johnson and promising emerging leaders resigning whatever job they have at that time to move to washington to work for a cabinet secretary for one year. How does leadership work and then how do they take that experience back with them . That would raise the leadership quotient of those who go to occupy Senior Leadership roles that was amazing ways it began. That was extraordinary. Who holds the endowed chair of surgery rota textbook used in 40 percent of medical schools around the country. He got rejected for the white house scholarship but thought that was the rejects i have to study the program because as of two or 3,000 people who applied they will narrow it down to 30 finalists. When you take the pool of 3,000 it is hard to tell who was elected and food is not there were idiosyncracies did a particular candidate tell a joke . Did they make a connection . You cannot tell them apart in meaningful ways at that point. But among those two were a finalist for the scholarship 12 go on into the a Senior Leader to hold a similar position in their own field of medicine or law or entertainment. 12 . Not bad. But did you compare that with those who were not just finalists for the program but white house fellows you see over the course of their career 32 percent of them hold that position. At one moment you cannot tell them apart. At another moment it is 2. 5 times more likely to assume the the pinnacle of leadership so we try to study what made that program work pilot that colin powell m. Wesley clark does ceo of levi strauss and extraordinary individuals we did a survey at the 82 spawns rate and then to go about the process of Leadership Development program for college students. In the midst of that i was invited to assume the presidency at court and i will never forget my conversation he said we are excited about you but i do have a question through intellectual property is that study that you did. [laughter] i said it is part of my research. Host was afraid you were going to say that. So we built a program it is the only one in the country mobled after the White House College students but we believe early it makes a significant difference doesnt matter what happens before age 20 but between 20 and 40 is a significant piece when people have the upward trajectory to significantly sharpen the ankle to assume positions in the location so in addition pc the value of symbolic leadership. It is interesting because i did not realize how much leadership means lead with your life. So much of what the leader does is measured by how they represent themselves in public how much they embody the values and virtues of those values. Those that are incredibly thoughtful even when you try represent the values and ideals another wonderful story as i interviewed Condoleezza Rice and amazing woman concert pianist and russia expert and secretary of state and National Security adviser reading her was an extraordinary opportunity and i asked her about the steps she she made in the white house and what she learned. She said i learned your life and people Pay Attention to symbols. What does that mean . Remember Hurricane Katrina . I was serving as secretary of state. I had nothing to do with the u. S. Governments response or fema it was as far removed as you could possibly be but as it turns out i was in new york for the opening of the general simply of United Nations as the secretary of state should do and i realized i had not packed inappropriate dress for a reception i was going to i said i would just run into the store to do it. She took power picked out a dress that was appropriate thing got into a cab but as it turns out with your secretary of state your watched all the time a and a reporter snapped a picture with a shopping bag on the same day that there was a picture of the devastation happening in new orleans. And i realized you have to lead the with your life. What did fringes folks is the of platinum leadership fight and interviewed Extraordinary People but within that we found there were 22 who had done extraordinary add only a beating in the institution but global scope but also to maximize the opportunities that came to them in babel and at the same time garner the trust and respect of their colleagues the and peters. These leaders released a part with the ability to combine this is to show leadership and symbolic leadership to recognize they to do extraordinary things. So they were individuals who i liked and enjoyed getting to know them but to have a compelling persona how they carried their values with them. One thing that impressed me was Continental Airlines in the late 1890s. The Airline Industry tried to figure out new ways to recognize revenue rose into broker a landmark deal that changed the entire industry was one of continental competitors with a with sell seats on each others planes to recognize reciprocal benefits for frequent fliers this led the groundwork for all consolidation over the last tenures is started in the late 1990s. It was wildly successful and as a result wall street loved the story in on the stock price went through the roof but because of that david was entitled to a nice bonus but they are of deep faith to want to make sure that their life is with their values. To make sure they would live beneath their means. In if this ended your bonus comes to be wavelet to give it away to world vision so then that is less to go to that organization is no to approach that general counsel if he could give back his bonus convicted be through the Corporate Philanthropy to the one of his choice. Then never heard of one that wanted to do giveback th